{
  "id": "INT-09",
  "category": "International infrastructure",
  "capability": "Execute NATO common-funded infrastructure and accept project contributions",
  "summary": "Accept U.S. host-nation designation for NATO Security Investment Program projects and use NATO/member contributions and qualifying U.S. NSIP funds.",
  "legal_basis": [
    {
      "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 2350q",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2350q&num=0&edition=prelim",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": ""
    }
  ],
  "authority_holder": "Secretary of Defense; designated DoD construction agent receives specified obligation authority.",
  "actor_chain": {
    "planner": [
      "NATO project planners",
      "CCMD/Service infrastructure sponsor"
    ],
    "resource_owner": [
      "NATO project contribution account",
      "U.S. NSIP appropriation"
    ],
    "approver": [
      "Secretary of Defense",
      "NATO project authorization"
    ],
    "executor": [
      "SecDef-designated construction agent, typically relevant Service construction organization"
    ],
    "partners": [
      "NATO and participating member governments"
    ]
  },
  "actor_sources": [
    {
      "title": "DSCA Security Assistance Management Manual, chapter 1: roles and implementing agencies",
      "url": "https://samm.dsca.mil/chapter/chapter-1"
    }
  ],
  "requirements": [
    "United States designated host nation for project.",
    "NATO-authorized expenditures; project-account and reimbursement rules."
  ],
  "limits": [
    "Not generic authority to finance any foreign construction project.",
    "Additional U.S. funding for uncovered costs requires national-interest determination and available NSIP military-construction funds."
  ],
  "funding": [
    "Contributions available until expended.",
    "Designated construction agent may recognize NATO project authorization as budgetary resources under subsection(d)."
  ],
  "coordination_path": "NATO requirement/authorization → U.S. acceptance → construction agent/funding account → contract/project controls → contribution reconciliation.",
  "availability": "Existing statutory pathway; conditional on the listed findings, approvals, eligible purpose and actual available funds. Not an obligation-ready certification.",
  "confidence": "High on express statutory capability; execution/delegation and currently available resources require program-specific confirmation.",
  "currentness": "GovInfo 2024 U.S. Code baseline read; relevant FY2026 NDAA (Pub. L. 119-60, enacted 2025-12-18) amendments reviewed. Target 2026-10-02; source-specific OLRC checks and remaining delta are documented in international.md. No certification of current funds or executed delegations.",
  "family": "International business, logistics and investment",
  "mechanisms": [
    "Cooperation & exchanges"
  ],
  "goal_ids": [
    "allies-partners"
  ],
  "office_links": [
    {
      "office_id": "combatant-commands",
      "role": "planner",
      "label": "CCMD/Service infrastructure sponsor"
    },
    {
      "office_id": "secretary-deputy-secretary",
      "role": "approver",
      "label": "Secretary of Defense"
    },
    {
      "office_id": "secretary-deputy-secretary",
      "role": "executor",
      "label": "SecDef-designated construction agent, typically relevant Service construction organization"
    }
  ]
}